Publication information from NUC pre-56, v. 58, p. 227

"Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street"--Colophon

Issued in parts

Cover-title: Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Ed. by F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin

August 1808-1905, edited by F. Du Cane Godman

Plates signed: W. Purkiss del. et lith.; Hanhart imp.; M. Freih. v. Schlereth; Vienna, Bannwarth Th. imp.; E. Wilson del. et lith., Cambridge; M.A. Sharp del.; Mintern Bros. imp.; Maud Horman-Fisher del. et lith.; lith. & imp. Camb. Sci. Inst. Co.; G.S. Saunders del. et lith.; H. Knight del.; Bale & Danielsson Ltd. imp

Collation of each v.: v. 1, pt. 1[=v. 15 of the BCA]: x, 316 p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 1, pt. 2[=v. 16 of the BCA]: xv, [1], 824 p., 19 leaves of plates; v. 2, pt. 1[=v. 17 of the BCA]: xii, 717, [1] p., 19 leaves of plates; v. 2, pt. 2[=v. 18 of the BCA]: xii, 432 p., 24 leaves of plates; v. 3, pt. 1[=v. 19 of the BCA]: xv, [1], 690 p., 27 leaves of plates; v. 3, pt. 2[=v. 20 of the BCA]: xii, 372 p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 1[=v. 21 of the BCA]: xxxiv, 572 p., 23 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 2[=v. 22 of the BCA]: x, 494 p., 21 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 3[=v. 23 of the BCA]: vi, 354 p., 15 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 4[=v. 24 of the BCA]: vii, [1], 750 p., 35 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 5[=v. 25 of the BCA]: vii, [1], 513, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 6[=v. 26 of the BCA]:[6], 396 p., 14 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 7[=v. 27 of the BCA]: vi, 221 p., 9 leaves of plates; v. 5[=v. 28 of the BCA]: xii, 525, [1] p., 26 leaves of plates; v. 6, pt. 1[=v. 29 of the BCA]: xix, [1], 625 p.; v. 6, pt. 1 Suppl.[=v. 30 of the BCA]: [3], 374 p., 43 leaves of plates; v. 6, pt. 2[=v. 31 of the BCA]: x, 249, [1] p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 7[=v. 32 of the BCA]: xii, 276 p., 13 leaves of plates

Most of the volumes include errata information in their preliminaries

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

I. pt. 1. [Adephaga] by H.W. Bates ... 1881-84. pt. 2. [Adephaga] by David Sharp ... 1882-87.--II. pt. 1. [Pselaphidæ, etc.] by David Sharp ... the Rev. Andrew Matthews and George Lewis ... 1887-1905. pt. 2. Pectinicornia and Lamellicornia, by H.W. Bates ... 1886-90.--III. pt. 1. Serricornia: Buprestidæ, by C.O. Waterhouse ... Throscidæ and Eucnemidæ, by Dr. G. Horn (with supplement by G.C. Champion) ... Elateridæ-Dascillidæ, by G.C. Champion ... 1882-97. pt. 2. Malacodermata, by the Rev. H.S. Gorham ... 1880-86.--IV. pt. 1-2. Heteromera, by G.C. Champion. 1884-93. pt. 3. Rhynchophora, by David Sharp and G.C. Champion ... 1889-1911. pt. 4-5. Rhynchophora: Curculionidæ, by G.C. Champion. 1902-09. pt. 6. Rhynchophora: [Brenthidæ, by D. Sharp. Scolytidæ, by W.F.H. Blandford. Anthribidæ, by K. Jordan] 1895-1907. pt. 7. Rhychophora: Curculionidæ, by G.C. Champion. 1909-10.--V. Longicornia, by H.W. Bates. Bruchides, by David Sharp. 1879-86.--VI. pt. 1 and supplement. Phytophaga, by Martin Jacoby ... 1880-92. pt. 2. Phytophaga: Hispidæ, by J.S. Baly, with an appendix by G.C. Champion ... Cassididæ, by G.C. Champion ... 1885-94.--VII. Erotylidæ, Endomychidæ and Coccinellidæ, by the Rev. H.S. Gorham. 1887-99

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SCNHRB copy is bound in 17 v. (v. 26 and 27 are bound together)

SCNHRB copy of v. 17 (v. 2, pt. 1) has a later blue buckram binding with gilt-lettered spine, which may indicate it was one of the remaindered copies reissued by Quaritch

SCNHRB copy of v. 21 has plate 12 misbound after plate 13

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of Thomas Lincoln Casey in v. 15-16, 18-28, and 30-31; the ink stamp "Smithsonian Libraries, Jan. 8, 1970" appears on most t.p.'s

SCNHRB copy has ms. annotations in ink and pencil in most of the volumes; v. 29 and 32 have a few slips with ms. notes tipped in

SCNHRB copy has most volumes bound in later brown buckram with gilt-lettered spines and gray endpapers; v. 17 is bound in later blue buckram with gilt-lettered spine; v. 24 is bound in later brown half-leather with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, and red sprinkled edges; vols. 16, 18, 20, and 28 are housed in green cloth-covered boxes for preservation

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